Pickeer vs Picketer - What's the difference?
pickeer | picketer |
(obsolete) To make a raid for booty; to maraud.
(obsolete) To skirmish in advance of an army.
Someone who s; one participating in a demonstration or posted on a picket line.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 9, author=Sharon Waxman, title=What’s in a Slur? A New Play Searches for Answers, work=New York Times
, passage=At the first show at U.C.L.A., picketers ended up joining the ticket line to see what the play was about.}}
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 27, author=Nick Bunkley And Mary M. Chapman, title=Off the Picket Line at G.M., Relieved but Wary, work=New York Times
, passage=While hourly workers ponder the agreement, salaried workers at G.M., many of whom encountered picketers blocking plant entrances when they arrived for work on Monday and Tuesday, said they, too, were thankful the strike did not drag on, because there was no upside for them.}}
As a verb pickeer
is (obsolete) to make a raid for booty; to maraud.As a noun picketer is
someone who s; one participating in a demonstration or posted on a picket line.pickeer
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picketer
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